Israel haters do a good job of blurring the supposed bright line between “anti-Zionism” and “anti-Semitism,” proving that there is no difference between hatred Jews And the only state opposition assigned to it protection they.
The latest demonstration came on Wednesday at New York University during a massive graduation ceremony in the streets surrounding Washington Square Park.
Some demented “activists” chose that moment of celebration to raise a harmful banner that resembled the Israeli flag, but played up the Nazi swastika and the New York University logo.
and He raised it atop the Steinhardt Building, named after a prominent university donor also known for his interest in Jewish issues and support for Israel.
This latest insult — equating the Jewish people with the same regime that erased 1,000 years of European Jewish life — came just days after a “protest” outside a Brooklyn synagogue turned into a display of hatred in a predominantly Jewish residential neighborhood.
A screaming mob with their faces draped in a Hezbollah flag waved and chanted disgusting slogans demanding that the “Zionists” evacuate Brooklyn.
These people keep insisting We are not against the Jews – only the Zionists!
But they were surrounding A Jewish The synagogue and A Jewish Neighborhood in Brooklyn, local connection Jews “Child killers.”
To claim that there is any meaningful distinction between “Zionists” and “Jews” in these cases is tantamount to asking Jews to prove their innocence, most likely by condemning Zionism.
To paraphrase Jean-Paul Sartre, anti-Semites enjoy accusing Jews of theft in order to make them empty their pockets to prove their integrity.
It is a ritual of humiliation.
Who raised Hackenkreuz At New York University, he did not make any humanitarian gesture regarding the suffering of the people of Gaza.
It was a hateful gesture, designed to make Jewish graduates and their families feel afraid and ashamed, without having the right to celebrate.
NYU must find the perpetrator or perpetrators and prosecute them publicly.
If they are students or graduates, expel them or revoke their degrees.
The normalization of intolerance directly leads to scapegoating and violence; Civilized people should blame the haters.
Stop the infection before it spreads further.